[85936] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: multi homing pressure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Haagsman)
Wed Oct 19 12:24:50 2005
From: Erik Haagsman <erik@we-dare.net>
Reply-To: erik@we-dare.net
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <A329773B-2E3A-40DE-A6B1-482F4104383C@ianai.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:03:33 +0200
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 12:03 -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> For the customer with an Internet "mission critical app", being tied
> to a Tier 2 has it's own set of problems, which might actually be
> worse than being tied to a Tier 1.
I think this is largely dependant on the specific topology and
redundancy in the Tier-2's network and the way they provide multiple
uplinks. When done well, with uplinks spread over separate physical
locations, well thought out IP adressing and de-centralised exits from
the Tier-2's network out to multiple Tier-n's, there's usually a benefit
to multi-homed connections to a Tier-2 rather than a Tier-1, with
minimum capacity and pricing being the most important ones.
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